Cresting for roofs



(No Model.)

0. B. NELSON.

GRESTING FOR HOOPS.

No. 428,315. Patented May 20, 1890.

UNITED STATEt PATENT OFFICE,

CLARK B. NELSON, OF ORAVVFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

CRESTING FOR ROOFS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 428,315, dated May 20,1890.

Application filed January 25, 1890. Serial No. 338,077. (No model.) A

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARK B. NELsoN, of Crawfordsville, in the county ofMontgomery and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Crestings for Roofs; and I do hereby declarethefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in ornamental copings and crestings for roofs of buildings, the object being to furnish a neat and simpleattachment forthe ridges of houses to take the place of the ordinaryplain coping used on slate, shingle, or tin roofs, as well as on alldecked houses and verandas, to prevent leaking at the ridge or therotting of the shingles, and also to serve as a natural conductor andreceiver of the electric currents.

\Vith this end in View the invention consists of a metal sheathingstamped, pressed, or otherwise formed into shape, in connection with awooden center or core, around which the sheathing is bent and secured,and an ornamental top secured to the sheath and core.

It further consists in certain novel features of construction andcombinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of twosections of the coping or cresting joined together, and Fig. 2 is atransverse section.

A represents a metal cresting or coping, preferably made of sheet metaland bent into the shape shown or in any other shape to fitthe ridge of aroof. This sheet-metalportion A is provided with the offset B at themiddle, which offset is formed solidly around a square base or core 0,preferably of wood, which serves as arigid support or b'race to hold themetal portion in shape. This core is held fast within the offset bymeans of screws, nails, or other devices.

For convenience in handling the cresting is made up in sections, andthese are fitted together by forming a recess in one end of each sectionof sufficient depth to receive the adjacent end of the next section, soas to prevent leaking at the joint.

A top E, usually of cast metal in any ornamental design, is securelyfastened 011 the sections, the screws or other fastening devices whichhold them in place passing through the sheet-metal sheathing and intothe wooden core, so that the three parts of which the crest ing iscomposed are held firmly together.

The article thus formed is cheap and gives an elegant and elaboratefinish to a roof, and with its other qualities of excellence it may beeasily and quickly applied to a roof, where it serves not only as anornament, but more especially as. a protection against storm.

I am aware that it is old to secure a sheetmetal cap over the ridge of aroof by means of a series of rods secured to such ridge by brackets, thecap being shaped to partly encircle the rods. IVith such constructionthe ridge of the roof must be worked off to provide fiat seats for thebrackets, and the brackets and attached rods to ust be secured in placebefore the sheet-metal cap or caps are passed on to the rods. With mydevice no prepara tion, so far as the ridge of the roof is concerned, isnecessary. The core is permanently attached to the sheathing, and whenin position rests above and out of contact with the ridge, and as theridge is left undisturbed, with the shingles overlapping, as in ordinaryroofs, there is no danger of leakage from the entrance of water throughthe sheathing. Again, the core, being permanently attached to thesheathing, forms a firm and substantial base for the attachment of theornamental tops E. WVith this construction I assemble the parts completein the shops, and their application to a roof of a house is but the Workof an hour to place and secure about one hundred feet of the sheathingin position.

It is evident that slight changes might be resort-ed to in the form andarrangement of the several parts described without departing from thespirit and scope of my invention, and hence I do not wish to limitmyself to the exact construction herein set forth; but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a coping or cresting for the roofsof buildings, consisting of a metal sheathing and a longitudi- IOO thecore, the said core, when the coping or cresting' is in position on aroof, being independent of and disconnected from the ridge of the roof,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

CLARK B. NELSON.

IsAAc M. VANCE,

Witnesses: i DAVID A. ROACH.

